Tilting frame for cooking-stoves.



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.r

JAEEW S.l VANy BUREN, OE'ALRANY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR To RATEBONE, SARD a OO., OR ALBANY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OR NEW YORK.

TILTING FRAIVIE FOR COOKING-STOVES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

v uatented May 14, 1907.

llunlication filed January 10, 1907. Serial No, 351,694.

i a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tilting Frames for Cooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in stoves and especially to a device for supporting a swinging section of the. stove top, containing the two front lids, in a raised position.

The object`of the invention is to provide a simple form of device adapted to support the 'tilting plate in two positions, a wide open position for putting on coal and a lower position particularly adapted. for broiling or toasting.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts here-v inafter described and specified in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention: Figure l is a plan view of the hinged or tilting plate, showing the same in connection with a portion of the top of an ordinary cooking stove. Fig. 2 is a broken sectional view on the line mdr of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the hinged plate and a portion of the stove, showing said plate raised. Fig. 4 is a broken sectional view taken on the line fy-y of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the stove showing the position of the support when the plate is partly lowered.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 is the top of a cooking stove, the two front lids or covers 2 and the short center 3 v of which are contained in the tilting plate 4. It will be noted that said plate has a projecting portion 4f* at one end thereof which fits a correspondingly shaped oHset portion la of the opening in the stove top. Said offset portion of-said opening extends above the lining 5 of the fire pot and below it is ar ranged a boxing or casing 6 which is curved up at one end to meet the top of the stove.

Below, the projecting portion 4a of the hinged plate is arranged a rib 7 which is adapted to close the side of the casing 6 next to the 'lire pot when said plate is lowered. T o the outer face of said rib andy at the end thereof opposite the curved end of the casing, is pivoted a post 8 having alaterally projecting lug 9 at its end. In the casing is pivoted a ratchet l0, the free end of which extends away from the curved end of said casing and normally rests upon the bottom thereof. Said free end portion is laterally offset at l0a 'toward the lug on thepost. The end of said ratchet is stepped at 1()b and 10c forming two teeth, either of which is adapted to be engaged by the lug on the'.

It will be seen that as the hinged plate is` raised by the handle 4b, the lug on the post into the first step and be supported by the first tooth. If the plate is raised still higher,

lwill ride up the end of the-ratchet and drop said lugwill engage the second tooth and thereby support said plate in a more Open position. To close the plate, all that is necessary is to raise it a little-farther until the lug on the post escapes the top of the lateral offset l0, when the post will dropdown upon the curved end of the casing and pass down said curved end and the bottom of said casing, said lug riding below the curved portion l()d and raising the ratchet, until said post is folded in the casing and the plate is lowered into the plane of thetop of the stove.

It will be observed that as the post and ratchet are both housed in the casing and said casing is arranged out of the line of the fire pot, it is impossible for any of the parts to warp or bind from action of the iire. My device is, therefore, both simple in construction and practically durable.

I claim 1. In a cooking stove, the combination, with a lifting plate having a rib on its lower surface, of a post pivoted to said rib, a ratchet below the top of the stove, for the purposel TOO vided with a tooth at one end and a rounded Il portion at the other end, and a casing adaptportion at the other end, and a casing adapt- I ed to house said post and ratchet, said casing ed to house said post and ratchet, said casing r having its bottoin curved up at one end, the having its bottom curved up at one end, the lug on said post adapted to ride up onto said lug on said post adapted to ride up onto said l tooth as the plate is raised and to pass over tooth as the plate is raised and to escape the the pivoted ratchet and tall against (he laterally offset portion of said ratchet as it is curved bottoni of the ratchet case, comraised farther and engage the rounded porpelling the post to assume a l'lorizontal posi- 2 tion of said pawl and raise the latter as said tion and become housed within the case as l1o plate is lowered. the plate is lowered.

3. In a cooking stove, the combination, In testimonywhereof, lallixmysignature,

With a tilting plate, of a post pivoted to said in presence of two Witnesses.

i JAFEW S. VAN BURICN plate and having a laterally projecting lug at its end7 a ratchet pivoted below the top of 15 the stove, for the purpose specified, said itnessesz ratchet having a laterally offset portion prow A. I. HENNESSY,

videcl'with a tooth at one end and a rounded i H. S. NELSON. 

